Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city (source BBC).
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About Me
- Paul Barford
- British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw Poland. Since the early 1990s a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context.
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- Avoiding Archaeologists "Aggressively" Posting Ar...
- New Book Out: the Impact of Looting and the Illici...
- ACCG Can't Get the Name Right
- Sisyphus and the TrollS on the Gate of the Digital...
- Sisyphus and the Troll on the Gate of the Digital ...
- Sisyphus and his Global Outreach?
- PhDiva versus Coiney Dealer-Researcher
- "Heritage Auctions" gets Bad Press in Wikipedia
- Heritage Auctions unaware of any treaty?
- Italy Busts eBay Looted Artefacts Ring
- Heritage Auctions Defies Texas Court Order
- Heritage Auctions Prevented From Selling Mongolian...
- Bourne Collection Exhibit Closes in Baltimore
- CoinProject: What Coin Nerds Collect, What they "R...
- Of Marbles and Men: Turkey Takes New Interest in C...
- Ka Nefer Nefer: The Gloves Could be About to Come ...
- Supremacist Sentiments in US Cultural Property "Ob...
- Detecting Under the Microscope: Knob Twiddling Mon...
- No Environmentally-Impacting Economic Development ...
- Detecting Under the Microscope: "Einsatzgruppen" O...
- Detecting Under the Microscope: It's not Illegal i...
- Detecting Under the Microscope: Ask an FLO about t...
- Detecting Under the Microscope: Nighthawks in Cost...
- Detecting Under the Microscope: A Winter of Discon...
- Detecting Under the Microscope: Archaeoposing by D...
- "Nationalism and the Antiquities Trade" as Seen fr...
- Aleppo Codex Decidedly More Imperiled in Israel?
- Sic Transit... Sadly, "Assemblage" Goes Offline
- No Mock Funeral for Archaeology?
- Detecting Under the Microscope: "The Informed Voic...
- Ka Nefer Nefer: Swiss Investigations?
- Ka Nefer Nefer: Right and Wrong in St Louis
- Museum Security in the UK
- Upcoming French Auction, 164 Antiquities Have No L...
- Looting in Egypt Political Hiatus
- Egypt Turmoil and Confusion over Looting
- Looting in Esna and Aswan
- Israeli Antiquities Authority Wants Book Thrown at...
- Will Other African Artefacts End This Way?
- Nord on Art - Dodgy Dealings
- Dealer's Dream: "The Collapse of Cultural Property...
- New York Antiquity Dealer Threatens Blogger, Then ...
- Loot Busters News (1)
- "Monety Expo Warsaw 2012"
- Metal Detecting Under the Microscope: the Chortlin...
- Metal Detecting Under the Microscope: the Finds Bo...
- Gorny and Mosche Lost Some Stock
- Stolen, But we Gave the Other Stuff Back, so we Ca...
- US Government Insists on Being Heard over SLAM Ka ...
- Gershwin's Brother's Letters and SLAM
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. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, Inc was planning to sell as lot 49315 in a New York auction a rare fossil specimen which palaeontol... -
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Greg Rohan, president of Dallas based Heritage Auctions commenting on his firm's selling of a Mongolian fossil despite a temporary restrai... -
It seems from a recent public presentation at a 21st May workshop on " Barriers to Participation in Archaeology Online " that the Briti... -
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Related sites
- David Gill - Looting matters
- ECHO Egyptian Cultural Heritage Orgnization
- Elginism
- Ethical Antiquities Collecting: Ancient Heritage
- Global Heritage Fund
- Halte au pillage du Patrimoine Archéologique et Historique
- Heritage Action
- Heritage Key
- Heritage Watch
- Illicit Cultural Property
- It Surfaced Down Under!
- Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Loot blog (Nora Mattern)
- Looting History
- Musea Beveiliging
- Museum Security Network (Google)
- Nathan Elkins - Numismatics and Archaeology
- Nord on Art
- Pieces of the Past: Ethical Antiquities Collecting
- Protecting China's Archaeological Heritage
- René Teijgeler - Culture in Development
- Research into Crimes against Art Association
- Ricardo A. St. Hilaire - Cultural Heritage Lawyer
- SAFE - Saving Antiquities For EVERYONE
- SAFECorner
- Stanford Archaeology Center, Cultural Heritage Resource
- Stanford Cultural Heritage Resource - Chronicle
- The Chasing Aphrodite Blog
- The Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog
- The heritage Journal (Heritage Action's blog)
- Things You Can't Take Back
Followers
Posting comments
Further Information
- AAMD (Association of Art Museum Directors)
- CBA (UK) - current issues: Portable Antiquities
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer - Ricardo St. Hilaire
- European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
- Fighting the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property (ICOM)
- IFAR International Foundation for Art Research
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (UK) - now sadly closed
- International Cultural Property Protection (US Dept of State)
- Interpol - stolen art works
- Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide
- Museum Security Network
- Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK)
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- Treasure Trove Unit (UK - Scotland)
- UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
- UNESCO Website
- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects
Apologists and Propagandists of the Current Form of the No-Questions-Asked Antiquities Trade etc.
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of BULGARIA (Docket DOS-2011-0115)
- Cultural Property Observer (Peter Tompa - lawyer)
- Moneta-L (coiney discussion list, mostly US and ancients- biased)
- Unidroit-L (rather moribund 'discussion' group)
- Yahoo Ancient Artifacts discussion group
- Uncleanedcoin Chat List
- The Ancient Art Market (blog, some "art consultant")
- Ancient Coin Coillectors' Guild (US lobby group)
- Ancient Coins & Cultural Heritage (blog, De La Fe - US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coins (Dave Welsh - US part-time coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Collecting (Wayne Sayles - US coin dealer)
- Ancient & World Coin Geek (blog, US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Trade (Jorg Lueke - US coin collector)
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of GREECE (Docket DOS-2010-0339)
Abbreviations used in this blog
- "coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
- "tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
- CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
- CCPIA (CPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act [US legislation]
- CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
- FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
- HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
- PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
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